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Timmothy Perriwinkle

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PS Lags Whole System
« on: July 23, 2008, 12:44:59 am »
So I'm on a 2nd Gen MacBook which means:

Core 2 Duo @ 1.83 GHz
2GB RAM
160GB HD
Intel GMA950 integrated graphix
OS X 10.5.4

Anyway, when I'm playing PS, and it seems to only happen then, my whole system lags up and random intervals. And I mean my whole system. Wifi flickers on and off, or if I'm on ethernet that flickers. I can't move my mouse, or type anything. Video becomes very jerky/frozen. Sound does the same. Basically every speck of hardware lags for about 5-15 seconds. It's very annoying, and impossible to recreate. Some days it will happen every five minutes, sometimes it won't happen all day. From my experiments, multitasking doesn't seem to be a factor. Has this happened to anyone else? Do we have a fix?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 01:21:47 am »
have you run the updater?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 01:38:23 am »
Yup.
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 01:52:25 am »
do you have texture downsampling on 1/2 or further to the right in pssetup?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2008, 02:10:00 am »
No, it's 1/1. Should it be further right?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2008, 02:59:03 am »
Quote from: Timmothy Perriwinkle on July 23, 2008, 02:10:00 am
No, it's 1/1. Should it be further right?

try 1/2 and keep going and see if that helps, it helped me from crashing
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2008, 03:06:11 am »
Nope, fired up PS, not five minutes in and it happened again.

Decrease it moar, or other suggestions?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2008, 03:23:35 am »
what map are you trying to load? have you tried other characters?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2008, 03:27:08 am »
Yes, I've tried two characters, it happens in Hydlaa (plaza and Kada-Els) and the arena, as well as in Gugrontid.

After some googling it seems that MacBooks and Mac mini's with Leopard seem to have a problem with Blender, that still hasn't been resolved. If I'm not wrong PS uses Blender? Maybe that's the problem...
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2008, 03:39:30 am »
blender is the application used to make the characters and items ingame, blender is not shipped or part of the ps engine.
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2008, 03:41:52 am »
Heavysigh.

Then I'm at a loss. No other Mac users experience this?
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2008, 03:53:01 am »
Quote from: Timmothy Perriwinkle on July 23, 2008, 03:41:52 am
Then I'm at a loss. No other Mac users experience this?

I know of one other but this user does not have the same system stats as you so i am not sure if their issue is the same as yours.
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2008, 03:13:19 pm »
I definitely have the issue with the wifi flickering...though i just assumed it was my modem or something.
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2008, 01:20:11 am »
I think this has something to do with heat, or moreso the overheating of components. This happened again so I picked my Macbook up by the bottom and nearly burned my hand it was so hot. Since then whenever I play PS, I put an ice pack w/ a towel on it under my Macbook and I haven't had the problem. I'd love to send it to Apple, but my warranty is expired =\
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Re: PS Lags Whole System
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2008, 01:37:25 am »
yeah mine overheats with PS too o.O good idea with the icepack though

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